Vivaldi – A Browser for Our Friends

Re:Vivaldi – A Browser for Our Friends by Jonsvt on Thursday January 05, 2017 @08:58PM (#13333300)

Glad you like our browser. We are working hard to continue to add really useful features, cool stuff and more flexibility. Our philosophy is that we all deserve a browser that works in the way we want it to. This means we listen to input and gradually add the features and options you want.

Cheers, Jon of Vivaldi

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Re:Vivaldi – A Browser for Our Friends by terrestrial on Friday January 06, 2017 @01:25AM (#13334383)

Hi Jon!

I know you are a stand-up guy [0]. Have you considered working with the free software community to create a truly free and modern browser?

No-one trusts Chromium since it's filled with Google-specific bits and tweaks, even analytics. Assuming you've trimmed all of that away, releasing your add-ons as free software (e.g. GPL or BSD) would create some real traction around Vivaldi as a browser alternative.

This also avoids the "Opera mistake". If Presto had been open sourced, it would still be alive and kicking today. With Blink things are different, and I don't see how keeping a proprietary user interface is going to sustain a browser company.

Suggestion: make the core browser slim, pluggable and free, and sell extensions and infrastructure parts necessary for sync, updates etc with a GPL and/or proprietary license.

Oh, and [0]: https://i.imgur.com/UFh2M.png

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Re:Vivaldi – A Browser for Our Friends by Tomis02 on Friday January 06, 2017 @07:07AM (#13335685)

I knew which picture it was before i even opened it :) the Opera community used to be so amazing.

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Re:Vivaldi – A Browser for Our Friends by LordWinstanley on Friday January 06, 2017 @04:13PM (#13340260)

Any plans for an Android version?

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